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SFU lab enters Guinness Book of World Records with world's smallest book reproduction

Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, as shown on a nano book that is officially the world's smallest, as named by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Photograph by: Handout
, SFU Public Affairs

An SFU lab has created the world's tiniest reproduction of a printed book, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. SFU's Nano Imaging lab produced a copy of Teeny Ted from Turnip Town that measures 0.07 X 0.10 millimetres in size.

Publisher Robert Chaplin, who had some help from SFU lab managers, used a focused gallium ion beam to imprint the book on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon.

If you want to read the book, you'll need to use a scanning electron microscope.

If you don't have an electron microscope handy , you may still get the chance to read Teeny Ted from Turnip Town. Chaplin has set up a Kickstarter campaign to get hard-copy versions of the book published.

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